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The Supreme Court has today handed down judgment in the long awaited appeal of Hirachand v Hirachand. The unanimous decision of the...

I was asked to offer up some tips on how private equity investments are treated in a divorce scenario and I am delighted my comments have...

The case of Bond v Webster centred around the validity of a will signed in 2019 by Reginald Bond, known by family and friends as Reg....

It is a rare occurrence when the court determines that a will should be overturned, having found that undue influence has been exercised...

The recent case of Leeson v McPherson serves as a reminder of the melancholy importance of the Forfeiture Act 1982, which prevents those...

The court has provided guidance on how to protect personal representatives in potentially insolvent estates in Wedgwood v Hosein and...

The High Court has (sensibly) decided that a text message sent by a man shortly before his death was sufficient to satisfy the test for a...

Some interesting commentary here from The Times about the case of Dawn Webb, who inadvertently revoked her Will by getting married,...

It’s a basic legal principle that a criminal shouldn’t be able to benefit from their crime. Just so, at a crossroads where civil and...

This week the High Court threw out a claim by Anne Lettice (70) that the £105,000 left to her by her mother Margaret (who died in April...

For as long as the Court rules have required claims to be served on a defendant, defendants have tried to evade service so that they...

The Ministry of Justice of the UAE have confirmed a significant decision to permit the enforcement of decisions made in the Courts of...